Giving meaning to the scores of the Amsterdam instrumental activities of daily living questionnaire: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Everyday functioning is a clinically relevant concept in dementia, yet little is known about the clinical meaningfulness of scores on functional outcome measures. We aimed to establish clinically meaningful scoring categories for the Amsterdam Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (A-IADL-Q), representing no, mild, moderate and severe problems in daily functioning.

Methods

Informal caregivers (n = 6) of memory-clinic patients and clinicians (n = 13), including neurologists and nurse specialists, working at various memory clinics in The Netherlands. In focus groups, participants individually ranked nine summaries of fictional patients from least to most impairment in daily functioning. Then, they placed bookmarks to demarcate the thresholds for mild

SUBMITTER: Dubbelman MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8943938 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature